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#week 1 research // form the whole basis of my project and how it has developed 

IIIII 1  Redefining Space

airbandb “welcome home”

airbandb are openly redefining the meaning of home. What we consider to be our home and how we live with other people.

"As Airbandb continues to grow, each rental listing made by each amateur innkeeper inches us towards the death of a home and the rise of transient living. Airbandb has enabled buildings around the world to be reclaimed, regardless of their initial purposes. These spaces remain in their original built space but have now become a hybrid between home, office and hotel....what emerges from airbandb is that people are adapting to architecture more then architecture is adapting to them" AR

Airbandb see the meaning of home as less a private realm and more a commodity. By  doing  this airbandb are making space more flexible which is the crux of what I am interested in.

However I want to make space even more flexible than airbandb

Space which we occupy currently is defined by the physical frame we apply to it and as a result the space we own and rent is static. I want to define space as a currency, so can be divided, multiplied, shared, traded and swapped i.e. it can move with us between towns, cities and countries.

I think this links to what I would describe as a grass roots reorganisation of society which is happening as we speak, where what we value has shifted from what we own to our experiences.

The definition of space as a currency facilitates more new experiences and it brings with it a complete redefinition of architecture, where architecture becomes a tool to represent space.

 IIIII 2   Using all our senses

We need music for escapism.

In this image Leitner is trying to represent the movement of sound visually. What interests me in this instance isn't Leitner's work specifically but how it links to Marshall Mcluhan's "The medium is the message."

Marshall Mcluhan describes visual space as linear and connected as opposed to acoustic space which he describes as a sphere whose centre is everywhere and margins are nowhere. Sound can therefore define space differently from sight.

Perhaps our new currency of space doesn't need to solely be defined by physical walls alone but defined by the sounds that we hear. Therefore our tool of architecture can address all of our senses to define space and is not just limited to what we see.

The more senses being used in framing the space the richer the potential of experience. The type of music you hear changes your experience of where you are. This is used in film making all the time.

It could be used in architecture to help a space to continue to provide new and novel experiences. (This links to the idea that experiences are valued more highly than possessions in the present economy.)

The clubs in Ibiza may help us understand how sound can frame a space which helps us to achieve a level of escapism.

 IIIII 3  Designing for our on-line and in-line personas.

The process of editing, documenting, connecting and essentially what amounts to living our lives online creates a disparity between our online representation of our lives and our actual present lives. I think that we are blurring the lines between the two and I think there are risks attached to this which, two of which these two images represent.

One

Read pg 78-79...80...

which is why I have this image of an open plan office which is actually from an article by Jeremy Paxman which title is: "If I were King for a day, I would ban open plan offices" the article describes how unsuitable he thinks open plan offices are as a permanent working environment for people.

Two

We edit ourselves using apps to make us look a certain way and how this directly translates to the physical world where we are editing our bodies in real life. This image shows NOSE BRIDGE PROSTHETIC IMPLANTS TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THEIR NOSE

Essentially I'm interested how architecturally we can design for our two personas.

How we chose to edit?

How we chose to document?

How do we choose to connect?

If we remove the ability to edit and the ability to document is that when we are really in the present?